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Kris Lemsalu is an Estonian artist whose eclectic practice weaves together performance, found objects, handmade works, and immersive installation. Animal furs, food products, porcelain body parts, and hand-painted textiles merge into anthropomorphic hybrids that undergo metamorphoses that are at times comic and at times unsettling – blending the human with the animalistic, the domestic with the wild, and craft with the artwork.

Her works exist in the tension between vital transformation and inevitable decay, and carry strong feminist undertones, refusing to strip women of their subjectivity. Living between Tallinn and New York, she represented Estonia at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019, and her works are held in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, Kiasma, and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.

 

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